You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKSRhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I wish I was better looking.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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